Picture strip



June 10 1924.

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Patented June 10, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACQUES MABETTE, OF VINGENNES, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR T PATHE CINEMA ANCIENS ETABLISSEMENTS PATHE FRERES, 0F PARIS, FRANCE.

PICTURE STRIP.

Application filed August 3, 1921. Serial N 0. 489,468.

to obtain such picure strips by making use of images taken from discarded portions or from any other part of motion picture films and by connecting these images together in sequence either by gluing the successive images upon lateral strips, or by causing said images to slightly overlap and gluing the same upon each other. These composite bands may be viewed directly or projected on the screen by means of any suitable apparatus, and in this manner a summary of a motion picture or like representation or a series of views more or less related to each other may be obtained at a slight expense.

The present invention consists in using like picture strips constituted by successive separate images taken from a cinematographic film, as a pattern strip for the 'manufacture of picture strips in one iece obtained by the reproduction upon b ank motion picture films of said pattern strip. The latter will preferably be constituted by gluing the separate images in sequence upon a transparent or translucid band provided with perforatedmargins which affords preparing said reproductions by means of the machines usually employed in the manufacture of motion picture films.

The accompanying drawings show b way 4 of example various embodiments of t e invention.

Fig. 1 shows a pattern according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic edge view of the same.

Figs. 3 and4 represent modified forms of composite film.

Fig. 5 shows a band of images in one piece obtained by the use of a pattern strip according to Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 6 shows the same band after the removal of the margins.

Fig. 7 shows the same band after the removal of only one margin.

Fig. 8 shows a band of images obtained by the use of a pattern strip accordin to Fig. 3, both margins having been su sequently removed.

Fig. 9 shows a band of images in one piece obtained by means of the pattern strip of Fig. 4:.

Figs. 1 and 2 show the preferred construction of a pattern strip, in which the separate images taken for instance from discarded portions of motion picture films are assembled in sequence by their longer side and glued upon a band of transparent or translucid material having the usual width of a motion picture film and provided with perforated margins like those of the motion picture films.

In order to reduce the width of the picture strip, instead of connecting the images to each other along their longer side, they may be connected by their shorter side as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the width of the picture strip obtained will thus correspond to the shorter side of-the images. In this case, the margins having the perforations may be preserved as shown in Fig. 3 and used for connecting the images to each other by means of glue or fastenings. Said margins can also be removed (Fig. 4), the connection between the images being still effected by gluing the images upon a solid band of transparent or translucid material as already explained. It will be observed that in viewing or projecting the ima es of a picture strip so constructed, in a sultable apparatus, the latter should be given such a position that the shorter side of the images be vertical in order that the images should assume a normal position.

The pattern strip being made, a strip in one piece will be obtained as follows: For instance, in the case of a composite pattern strip according to Fig. 1, primary reproductions thereof may be obtained bfyl superposltion upon sensitive perforated ms according to the known methods for the reproduc- 100 tion of motion picture films or by the known photographic methods, these reproductions being subsequently used to produce prints upon sensitive motion picture fihns. This process will afiordbands such as are shown 10!! in Fig. 5. A bandof this kind is in a single piece and contains the images a, b, o corresponding to the images a, b, 0 of the composite picture strip. The perforated margins of the pattern strip serve to draw along 110 the same during the operations of printing,

' developing, fixing, washing and drying,

may be removed or retained, together with the motion picture film; the perforated margins of the latter after the operation and the band will then appear as in Fig. 6 and will have a reduced width.

1n the case of a composite picture strip as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the same operations will be performed, and if the margins of this band are removed, the final result will be a band of images in a single piece as shown in Figs; 8 and 9.

All the reproductions are more readily obtained from the fact that the pattern strip-is constituted by a band having the usual per-' fo-rations and is therefore susceptible of being fed and manipulated with facility in the devices commonly used for the treatment of motion picture films.

It is obvious that the bands of images obtained according to the present invention may be composed of celluloid or like transparent or translucid substance such as paper, textile fabric, or the like and that the way in which the pattern strip is preferably constituted, as above described, has been indicated solely by Way of example.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A method for the manufacture of picture strips in one piece, which consists in preparing a pattern strip by gluing separate images in sequence upon a transparent band having the usual width of a motion picture film and provided with the usual perforated margins, each image being a portion of a motion picture film, and obtaining reproductions of said pattern strip upon blank motion picture films.

'2. A method for the manufacture of pic ture strips in one piece, which consists in preparing a pattern strip by gluing separate images in sequence upon a transparent band having the usual width of a'motion picture film and provided with the usual perforated margins, each image being a portion of a motion picture film, obtaining reproductions of said pattern strip upon blank motion picture films, and removing subsequently one perforated margin of the latter.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

JACQUES 

